Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

Gene editing promised a revolution, but biotech layoffs, stock slumps, and industry struggles reveal a stark reality: CRISPR ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Stem cell engineering and CRISPR were used to create mice with two male parents. Could we use this technique on humans?

Thinkhat attends the Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) and unveils the first of its AI-driven healthcare and life science (HLS) p ...

Bioengineering Professor Kiana Aran is one of three inaugural winners of the Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature. She ...

Recent scientific discoveries include the rapid formation of two moon canyons by an ancient asteroid impact near its south pole and the creation of genetically edited polo ponies in Argentina. The ...

Argentina's award-winning mare Polo Pureza will have her genes, or at least most of them, live on in five genetically edited horses designed to outrun the polo legend herself.

Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering is dedicated to educating the engineering leaders needed to tackle the world’s toughest problems while making a positive impact on those around us. Detailed within ...

The field of plant biotechnology is undergoing a profound transformation. The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...